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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-recognition-of-professional-qualifications-second-general-system-regulations-1996/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2374",
  "legislation_title": "The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-recognition-of-professional-qualifications-second-general-system-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Designated Authorities",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to its other powers and functions, a designated authority shall have the functions of considering applications and granting authorisations under these Regulations.\n(2) If, for purposes other than those of these Regulations, a designated authority has as its function or one of its functions the conferring of a professional title or designatory letters then for the purposes of paragraph (1) above as it affects that body the function of authorising the practice of a profession or activity shall include the authorising of the use of that professional title or those designatory letters.\n(3) Nothing in this Regulation shall be taken to require a designated authority to authorise the practice of any profession save in so far as it has that function in relation to the holders of the relevant UK qualification.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2374/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:35:26.262855+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}